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The basics of RSS* – Friday workshop @ UCTL

This is a beginners session. Dave C.

8.45-9.15am, Friday 10 August — UCTL seminar room LAWS427

Following your favourite news feeds – Business, teaching, research or personal interests. Starting from the beginning with using Bloglines (http://bloglines.com).

*RSS is a way to keep track of what is going on in a website without actually visiting it. If the website has RSS, you subscribe to the ‘Feed’ and can then skim the headlines and decide if there is anything you want to visit to read further. This has become popular with blogs – but feeds have existed for many years before blogs.

Feed readers have become very straightforward to use.

Any further information from Derek Chirnside, ext 7818.

Database trial underway for Oxresearch

For those with a politics, economics or current awareness bent…

“OxResearch provides analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance. Articles are compiled by an extensive international network of over 1,000 faculty members at Oxford and other leading universities around the world, as well as think-tanks and institutes of international standing